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Has your company set ambitious diversity and inclusion goals? Then you’ll need a successful diversity recruitment strategy to reach them. You want to hire a diverse range of people. Diverse when it comes to age, gender, race, sexual orientation and religion. And...

Does your company have ambitious diversity and inclusion goals? Then you probably already know about the important role job descriptions play in achieving them. A workforce can become more diverse when its job descriptions are unbiased. And understandable to everyone...

Employer branding is an important element of recruitment that is often overlooked, but it can have a huge impact on your company’s workforce. And it’s important for all companies, not just for the ones that have to find talented employees in tight labor market...

Ambitious diversity and inclusion goals leave recruiters with quite the challenge. Because a more diverse and inclusive workforce starts with hiring candidates with different backgrounds, ages and genders. To do so, you’ll need to write inclusive job descriptions that...

We know that an increasing number of companies set themselves ambitious diversity and inclusion goals. There is one thing in this context that makes little sense, though. We’re talking about age bias. Age discrimination is by far the most common form of discrimination...

In recent years, diversity and inclusion has become the top priority for a growing number of companies. If we take a look at the benefits of a diverse workforce, the reason for this becomes clear. Diversity and inclusion is essential to be successful. Companies that...

When we speak about more diversity and inclusion in the workforce, gender diversity is something that almost always comes up. Companies strive for more women in leadership roles, or more women in general, but struggle to succeed in doing so. Gender bias plays an...

If your company has set ambitious diversity and inclusion goals, you’ve probably already noticed that these aren’t that easy to reach. What you probably don’t know is that job descriptions play a key role here. In particular, the readability of these job descriptions....

You want to reach as many people as possible with the content you write and publish. That means it should appeal to everyone and, above all, it should not exclude people. That is why it is necessary to write inclusively. If you are an inclusive organization or if you...

Nowadays, diversity and inclusion in the workplace are top priorities. The diversion and inclusion goals (D&I goals) companies set are slowly but surely becoming the most important goals to achieve. To do so, many companies are now working on a chief diversity...

You might wonder how the term “branding” fits in with recruitment. Isn’t that a marketing thing? Well, yes, it is. Employer branding in recruitment, however, has to do with creating a strong employer brand to reach and retain as many potential candidates as possible....

The findability of your company’s job descriptions is extremely important if you want to reach as many potential applicants as possible. And that is what you should strive for if your company has set ambitious diversity and inclusion goals. SEO job descriptions play...

Data-driven recruitment is an innovation used for a data-driven approach to the recruitment process. It is based on the use of technologies, techniques and data to analyze a large group of candidates. It helps recruiters find candidates with the right skills,...

Reaching their diversity and inclusion goals is something countless companies strive for. Not only because it’s something society asks for, but also because it positively impacts revenue, employee satisfaction and the company’s reputation. But we know that this is not...

From the diversity and inclusion goals that many companies have set for themselves, it’s obvious that their importance is understood. If you take a quick look at the benefits of a diverse workforce, it’s clear to see why. Diverse and inclusive workplaces are more...

We hear all about it on the news. When an older person loses their job, it’s harder for them to find something new. That’s difficult to reconcile with the increasing number of companies that strive for inclusion and diversity in the workforce. These good intentions...

Diversity and inclusion in the workforce come in a number of ways. Gender diversity is one of them, and one that still needs some work. Politically, it’s high on the agenda. Companies want more women in leadership roles. While that’s an admirable goal, it’s one that...

The importance of writing job descriptions at the understandable B1 level Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are highly valued nowadays. Of course, it’s the right thing to do. And research shows that diversity plays an important role in the profitability of a...

In recent years, a growing number of companies have stated that diversity and inclusion in the workplace are their top priority. Because the more diverse the workplace is, the more profitable it will be in comparison with less diverse companies. Now more than ever,...

With the increasing amount of content available on the Web, we have bountiful information resources in the form of web pages (henceforth called documents). At the same time, having so much information at our disposal can make it unwieldy to go through and find exactly...

To know how augmented writing platforms can be of help in recruitment, and more specifically in preventing gender bias in writing job descriptions, you first need to know what augmented writing tools are. Augmented writing can best be described as a technology that...

Why does one person decide to respond to your job vacancy while another doesn’t even fully read it? How come it always seems that very few people apply? And why do most of the people who do apply not even fit the job description? These are frustrations that many...